Biography:
" My Grandfather James H. (1395) was a lobster fisherman out of Kittery Point, Maine until about 1920. He owned a 30' boat called the Jane just before he left. His license for this boat was registered out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (which I have)
They (my mother and grandfather) moved to Ontario, California to live with his mother, Nancy Jane and Olive (1394).
My Grandfather worked for Armstrong Nursery in Ontario. We have pictures of him working at San Simeon when Hearst was building his "castle" on the coast of Northern California.
In later life he left Ontario to live with my Mother in San Francisco. He lived there until his death in 1958. He is buried in Ontario, California along with Olive and Nancy Jane Taylor TREFETHEN.
My mother used to tell stories about rowing by herself from Monhegan Island when she was pretty young. She spoke of Grandpa taking her as far as Nova Scotia in his boat." [Source 149]
Children:
- Vincent Joseph TREFETHEN 1655 (1898 - 1971) Born in St. George, Maine
- Frederick Joel TREFETHEN1656 (1901 - 1985) Born in York, Maine
- Winthrop N. TREFETHEN 1657 (1903 - unknown) Born in Kittery, Maine
- Olive Elizabeth TREFETHEN1658 (1904 - unknown) Born in Kittery, Maine
- Etta Mae TREFETHEN1659 (07 March 1907 - unknown)
- Born in Kittery, Maine.
- She married William L. SULLIVAN on 26 April 1926 &
- She married Leslie B. HEENEY on 28 August 1941.
- Had one child, a daughter named Leslie Mae HEENEY. [Source 149 & Source 36: Maine Bride’s Index; Salt Lake City]
- Nancy Jane TREFETHEN1660 (06 June 1913 - 19 November 1997)
- Born in Kittery Point, Maine;
- Died in Claremont, California.
- Married a Mr. NANCE and
- was the mother of
- Sharon,
- Grace (Cubbage), &
- Nancy. [Grace Cubbage via FindAGrave.com +]
SOURCES:- 129. BAILEY, Glenn R.- His references are marked as follows:
- 1. Rockingham County, New Hampshire Deeds 63:408, 64:237, 129:295, 130:97
- 2. Dover, New Hampshire Cemeterty Inscriptions
- 3. Dover Vital Records
- 4. York County, Maine Deeds 54:84, 95:17, 54:83, 59:45, 69:149, 128:127
- 5. Lincoln County Deeds 41:176 and/or Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771, Betty H. Pruitt; Boston, Massachusetts 1978
- 6. Strafford County, New Hampshire. Deeds 26:61, 24:240, 29:173,30:32, 35:57,36:269
- 7. York County, Maine. Probate Docket #19153
- 8. Federal Census (assorted)
- 9. Strafford County Probate 5:121
- 10. New Castle Vital Records
- 11. Monhegan Island Cemetery Inscriptions
- 12. Bristol, Maine Vital Records
- 13. 1st Parish Church Records, Kittery, Maine
- 14. Petition to Selectman of Kittery, Maine; June 17, 1799
- 15. Strafford County, New Hampshire Probate Docket #5:121
- 16. Lincoln County Deeds 149:6, 41:177, 41:178,44:32, 64:25+, 148:332, 148:393, 109:220
- 17. Columbian Centinal, 'Deaths' - July 13, 1816, November 19, 1823
- 18. Windham, Maine Vital Records
- 19. Maine Monthly Magazine - July, 1836
- 20. Friendship, Maine. Cemetery Inscriptions
- 21. Friendship, Maine Vital Records
- 22. Lincoln County, Maine Probate 24:117
- 23. Pond Grove Cemetery, Portland, Maine Inscriptions
- 24. Portland, Maine Vital Records
- 25. Pourtsmouth, New Hampshire Vital Records
- 26. Maine, Genealogy & Family History Of the State of, George Thomas Little, A.M., Litt. D. Vol. IV; Lewis Historical Pub. Co., N.Y.- 1909 (same as Source 42)
- 27. Monhegan Island Plantation Records
- 28. Portland City Directory - 1894,1897 - 1927
- 29. Bremen Maine Vital Records
- 30. Maine Home Journal, ‘Cronicles of Cushing & Freindship’, Rockland, Maine 1892
- 149. Grace Cubbage
- 173. Grace Griffin Her name appears on the linked page, her great-grandmother Grace Evelyn TREFETHEN1489 .
- Grace Griffin, grand-daughter
- Grace Cubbage, his grand-daughter
- FindAGrave
- Maine Bride’s Index; Salt Lake City